Andrew Marr Show

Heard a rumour it was BBC One scheduling, not the production team...

Huw Edwards had said at the end of the last show that Andrew Marr would be back in two weeks. Seems strange to go through the summer then miss the last two weeks.

Bank Holidays can of course be forgiven.

(Viewers in Scotland have their own programme at that time).

Yes, but it would be equally strange for the main presenter to go on holiday through the summer and then come back for two weeks when Westminster isn't in session and everyone else is on holiday. Far better to come back in Seotember to make it look a bit tidier. Just so happened there turned out to be a massive story.

Breakfast With Frost always used to take Bank Holiday weekends off so this isn't particularly unusual. I noticed they made no reference to it on the Saturday night BBC1 news, as they normally do.

What used to confuse me was when they did News 24 Sunday in the summer, which seemed an odd compromise because The Andrew Marr Show wasn't simulcast on News 24 so they had to change their schedule for a programme which was more or less identical to The Andrew Marr Show anyway. I don't know why they didn't just carry on The Andrew Marr Show but just get Peter Sissons to host it, the same sort of thing we were getting this summer.

As has been said before with regards to Question Time, politics continues throughout the year regardless of whether or not Parliament is in recess. The major political story last week is not a one off for this time of year, political storms happen constantly.



Actually, they don't seem to refer to TAMS at the end of the Saturday late news as much as they used to. The occasions when they do are usually if the PM is on or one of the party leaders - even then it's usually done by the CA over a BBC One caption between the news and weather.

From the Mandrake column in the Sunday Telegraph: Missing Andrew Marr sparks Sunday scare at the BBC

There's been a trailer for the programme in the last week. The last time I remember one for TAMS was when it started (as Sunday AM). The fact that the music in the trailer is the opening theme and the videos is simply a collection of clips from previous shows suggest this might have been a last minute thing in the wake of the incident a fortnight ago to remind people that it is definitely back this weekend.